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Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"

Reasoning:

"One way for physicians to assist suicide, while remaining within their professional capacities, is for them to write orders that withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment at patient request. The latter claim implies only that it is possible for physicians to assist suicide by acting within their well-recognized authority to abate life-sustaining treatment at patient request. It does not imply that their abating life-sustaining treatment at patient request amounts to, constitutes, is equivalent to assisted suicide. To refute my modest claim, one would have to prove that it is not possible for physicians to assist suicide in this way. Further, I will argue that physician-assisted suicide (already effectively decriminalized) should be fully and formally decriminalized. It should not be 'legalized-but-strictly-regulated' unless such a regime would extend to medically managed, physician-facilitated deaths generally."

"Physician-Assisted Suicide: To Decriminalize or to Legalize, That is the Question," Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, 1998